Wednesday, 5 November 2025

OCTDOVERFEST 2025

 Best bird of the month was this Great Grey Shrike at Worth

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JUVENILE RING OUZEL -LANGDON HOLE



LITTLE STINT- Dwarfed by the LAPWING.
SPOTTED CRAKE AT SBBO
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WAVERLEY OFF SAMPHIRE HOE
STARLING


RED THROATED DIVER -MINNIS BAY
SANDWICH TERN

A SECOND RED THROAT MINNIS BAY.

WIGEON - SAMPHIRE HOE
GOLDCREST IN SEA BUCKTHORN -SAMPHIRE HOE


MALE BLACK REDSTART- Warning a Robin to stay off my rocks.
BLACK REDSTART AT SAMPHIRE HOE.


A PAIR OF CHOUGHS ENJOYING THE UPDRAFT AT THE CLIFF EDGE -DOVER.
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LECH KACZYNSKI LNG TANKER OFF DOVER.
A THAMES UBER RIVER TAXI -EARTH CLIPPER- LEAVING DOVER FOR LONDON.


MEADOW PIPIT -See the long hind claw 
JAY -MARGATE CEMETRY
BRENT GEESE
RED THROATED DIVER -DOVER HARBOUR
LITTLE OWL -LYDD
KITTIWAKE AT DUSK IN DOVER HARBOUR,A few thousand gulls roost in the harbour mostly BLACK HEADS but a good number of KITTIWAKES MED GULLS AND COMMON GULLS,
It is well worth a look.

REMEMBER NOVEMBER





Friday, 3 October 2025

MY AUTUMN ALMANAC

 September has been and gone in a flash or so it seems,I have done the rounds of the usual places of East Kent,and of course I normally end up in the right place at the wrong time to get the goodies.However I enjoy my time out whatever the outcome as my varied interests invariably lead to something of interest turning up.

WHEATEAR AT SAMPHIRE HOE
ADONIS BLUE MALE AT SAMPHIRE HOE
ANOTHER WHEATEAR
THAMES BARGE ALICE ON THE SWALE.

WASP SPIDER
CATTLE EGRET AT DUNGENESS
LOVELY WEATHER FOR DUCKS
PINTAILS FROM THE HANSON HIDE ARC PIT


GREAT WHITE EGRET -HANSON HIDE
GW EGRET
CURLEW SANDPIPERS -RESTHARROW SCRAPE
CURLEW SANDPIPER
PORTRAIT OF A RAVEN -FOXHILL DOWN.
LESSER WHITETHROAT 
GREEN SANDPIPER STODMARSH
BRIMSTONE
RUSSIAN FRIGATE 722
HMS IRON DUKE KEEPING AN EYE ON 722
SMALL COPPER


WHEATEAR SHOWING ITS WHITE RUMP.
THE CHOUGHS SEEM TO BE DOING OK AND ARE BECOMING MORE ADVENTUROUS
STONECHATS HAVE HAD A VERY GOOD BREEDING SEASON AT SAMPHIRE HE.
BLUE TIT
FEMALE ADONIS BLUE
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AVRO ANSON AT ABBOTSCLIFF
CLOUDED YELLOW HAVE BEEN WIDESPREAD THIS YEAR,
CMACGM LOUIS BLERIOT SAILING DOWN CHANNEL RATHER THAN FLYING OVER IT.
SHAGGY INKCAP
TONIJN A SAFETY VESSEL SAILING UNDER THE FLAG OF SAN MARINO ARRIVING AT DOVER
SPECKLED WOOD
COMMA
WALL BROWN 77 WERE COUNTED BETWEEN CASTLE COOTE AND THE SPORTSMAN AT SEASALTER.
JUVENILE RINGED PLOVER
MEDITERRANEAN GULL
JUV RINGED PLOVERS AND A SANDERLING AT SEASALTER.


A SAD END FOR THIS YOUNG GANNET  NEAR SHAKESPEARE CLIFF.